#StopLynching: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap slams trolls on Twitter

After filing a police complaint against a person who allegedly sent a threat to him on Twitter, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap opened the discussion once again on Sunday via the micro-blogging site. Kashyap was among the 49 film personalities who penned a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which addressed incidents of mob violence and lynching across the country. Soon after the letter's release, the director was on the receiving end of hate over social media.

Opening up on the matter, Kashyap tweeted, "If one letter can impact them so much that they need an entire troll army to keep digging out false narratives & throw various accusations continuously at signatories to counter the truth, imagine what would happen if we start questioning every self-serving action of the regime." The statement was soon followed by the hashtag "#stoplynchings".

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The tweet comes after a criminal complaint was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sury Kant Tiwari by a city-based lawyer Sudhir Ojha. The case has been filed against nine people, including Konkona Sen Sharma and Aparna Sen, and has been registered under Sections 124a (sedition), 153B (assertions prejudicial to national integration), 290 (public nuisance), 297 (trespass to wound religious feelings), 504 (intentional insults) of the India Penal Code (IPC).

"The magistrate has accepted the case and will hear it on August 3," the complainant lawyer told ANI. Ojha further added, "I have alleged that 49 intellectuals who have written an open letter to the Prime Minister have tried to malign the country's image abroad. They are trying to break this country into pieces in collusion with separatists."

The government, in response to the open letter, said that Dalits and various other minority communities are safe in the country and those who are "yet to recover" from the defeat in the recent Lok Sabha polls are trying to communalise "criminal incidents".